{"id":568346,"date":"2026-08-15T13:38:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T10:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=568346"},"modified":"2026-08-15T13:43:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T10:43:42","slug":"lukashenka-recalls-how-he-caught-a-54-kilogram-catfish-in-the-prypyats-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lukashenka-recalls-how-he-caught-a-54-kilogram-catfish-in-the-prypyats-river","title":{"rendered":"Lukashenka Recalls How He Caught A 54-Kilogram Catfish In The Prypyats River"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/strong> attended the opening ceremony of the Call of Palessie festival of ethnocultural traditions on Aug. 15 and visited a hunter and fisherman\u2019s house. During the visit, he shared a story about fishing on the Prypyats River. According to him, it took about an hour to land the large fish.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>\u201cI once went catfishing here. I caught a 54-kilogram catfish. I spent a whole hour landing it. We pulled it out with a gaff, put it in the boat, and it looked at me with sad eyes. After that, I stopped fishing for catfish \u2014 those eyes stayed with me. I felt sorry for the big fish,\u201d<\/i><\/em> his press service <a href=\"https:\/\/president.gov.by\/ru\/events\/ucastie-v-ceremonii-torzestvennogo-otkrytia-mezdunarodnogo-festivala-etnokul-turnyh-tradicij-zov-poles-a\">quotes<\/a> him as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aliaksandr Lukashenka attended the opening ceremony of the Call of Palessie festival of ethnocultural traditions on Aug. 15 and visited a hunter and fisherman\u2019s house. During the visit, he shared a story about fishing on the Prypyats River. According to him, it took about an hour to land the large fish. \u201cI once went catfishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":568345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a8042e212424.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lukashenka Recalls How He Caught A 54-Kilogram Catfish In The Prypyats River"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}